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Aggrieve   /əgrˈiv/   Listen
verb
Aggrieve  v. t.  (past & past part. aggrieved; pres. part. aggrieving)  To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. "Aggrieved by oppression and extortion."


Aggrieve  v. i.  To grieve; to lament. (Obs.)





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... no less profound Against his sovereign lord than lady swayed, And who of reason thus o'erpast the bound, And ill of one and of the other said, Would fain behold that monarch's kingdom drowned With such a tempest, with such scathe o'erlaid, As should in Africk every house aggrieve, Nor one stone standing ...
— Orlando Furioso • Lodovico Ariosto


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